Moreto v. United States

LETTS, District Judge.

The plaintiff makes claim for gratuitous insurance in the sum of $2,000 under the provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, 38 U.S.C.A. § 801 et seq. The case has been submitted to the court for decision on a stipulation of facts, the depositions of plaintiff and Francisco P. Monge and written arguments.

The agreed facts are as follows:

1. Salvador M. Moreto served as a member of the Philippine Army from December 8, 1941, until April 9, 1942, when he was declared to be in a beleag.ured status; thereafter he was classified as being in a missing in…